Word: speech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Because we lack love, we have not succeeded in coming together," Dr. Richard Quebedeaux said last night in a speech at Sperry Hall in the Divinity School about his efforts to unite conservative evangelicals and more liberal Christians...
...inaugural speech to the Cardinals last week, the new Pope touched a number of traditionalist chords, mentioning the First Vatican Council, with its dogmas on papal authority, the "discipline" of the clergy and the "obedience" of the laity. But he also stressed the church's obligation to promote the reforms of the Second Vatican Council "with prudent, but encouraging action...
Last week's papal inaugural speech contained a noteworthy sentence on ecumenism: "Hopefully, thanks to a common effort, we might arrive finally at full communion" with other Christians. That does not appear to be mere lip service. Just four days before Wojtyla's election, Protestant Billy Graham preached to an overflow audience at St. Anne's Roman Catholic church in Cracow?at the personal invitation of Cardinal Wojtyla. The choice of a Pole stirred deep anxiety among Jews in Israel and elsewhere, because of Poland's history of antiSemitism, but hurried phone calls to Poland and Rome reassured Jewish leaders...
...build a public groundswell for Stage 2, labor and business, for all their misgivings, may feel forced to observe the guidelines, and if the wage-price spiral can be slowed, the Government will get more time to chop away at the budget deficit. But even if a socko TV speech gets the program off to a good start, the President will face the tough task of maintaining public, labor and business confidence -and imposing unpleasantly stringent spending discipline on his own Administration-for what at best will be a long, long haul...
...that the other elections followed. In a run-off, Winthrop, who ran on the promise that he would not let his politics interfere with his administrative functions as chairman, defeated Chris Owens '81, a representative from Quincy who was discernibly more of an activist. Owens, during his pre-election speech for example, mentioned a half-dozen issues the assembly should tackle and cast the Harvard administration in an oppositional role to students. Owens got a lot of votes, but Winthrop...